Too bad I just ran out of mod points. I'd have an offtopic for you and your friend who'd rather sit around in your respective moms' basements instead of going to work.
Startup Weekend is an intense 54 hour event bringing brilliant minds (entrepreneurs, VCs, developers, designers, marketers, lawyers etc.) together to create a company (or as many as companies as the participants decide) from concept to launch! Interactivity and forging...marketspeak bullshit, blah blah...Microsoft "experts" will be present to will provide support for developers building applications on Silverlight, Windows 7 and Azure. We will have other...blah blah.
Learn That Name, a new iPhone app designed to help people remember the names of people they bump into at events, won the most votes
I can't see that the TFS got it wrong, at least according to these quotes from the TFA.
I just check the Vonage web site. You can't call anywhere in the world for free. Maybe you mean other Vonage customers.
But, why would you pay $20 to $70 per month for a limited number of minutes rather than using a SIP phone (hard or soft) and doing the same for free; maybe using some SIP gateway service for call-in and call-out?
So we discuss "Coder of Swiss Wiretapping Trojan Speaks Out" on Aug 26; http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/08/26/144249, in which TFS says: "Last night, he published the source code of his Skype-Trojan under the GPL." (http://www.megapanzer.com/2009/08/25/skype-trojan-sourcecode-available-for-download/), and now the Einsteins at Symantec "claims to have found the public release of source code". Fucking brilliant.
The IBM 353 Disk Storage Unit used in the IBM 7030 in 1961 had a capacity of (2^21) 72-bit words (64 data bits and 8 ECC).
I happen to think that the early drives set a precendent which has value, and don't appreciate what the modern disc manufacturers are doing. It's worse than dumbing down; because it's lying. Have non-computer people learned anything about computers since the Apple II? Maybe not. Why not? Because the people from the 1970's that founded personal computer companies with the paradigm that computers were alien and mysterious rocket science to the consumers of the 1970's are still in charge, instead of younger people who might allow computer users to grow up.
There is a page with good pictures of their earlier drive, the 350, here: http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_350.html
I wanted to say something serious, like how HP, under Carly Fiorina flushed DEC's technology, like the superb Alpha CPU, down the toilet in favor of an alliance with Intel and the Itanic. But glwtta was too funny, and I don't give a shit anymore. Fuckit.
"Russel Smith, principal idiot at the Australian Institute of Morons said the concept of a "computer drivers licence" should be taken seriously as an option for combating internet-related crime." (Well OK, maybe it's not an exact quote).
You know, a lot of inappropriate material goes down toilets into the sewage system, and which then subsequently has to be expunged from the system, at the expense of the taxpayers, or the environment.
Isn't a license to flush toilets needed to curb these abuses?
But something is unusual about the current sunspot cycle. The current solar minimum has been unusually long, and with more than 670 days without sunspots through June 2009, the number of spotless
days has not been equaled since 1933
As to the "low number of sun spots and a temperature spike", more from TFA:
...posted on the Internet and led to some misunderstanding when a few authors from other
fields cited that post and erroneously concluded that a lack of sunspots could explain global warming
This is something worth following closely:
Four years after the first draft paper, the predicted cycle-independent dearth in
sunspot numbers has proven accurate. The vigor of sunspots, in terms of magnetic
strength and area, has greatly diminished...Whether this is an omen of long-term
sunspot decline, analogous to the Maunder Minimum, remains to be seen.
AFAIK, every single computer out there running Unix and Linux variants all have the crypt command, so that satisfies his first requirement of not having a suspicious program.
I tried to find something, and the closest I could come up with was 2308, but I don't think that really addresses this problem.
But, I do agree that it's a problem. I do not want any program that I use to access the internet, to connect to a host:port that is not the one that I specified.
Having said that, I do understand that it is the MS way to try to hide technical complexity from their users, and that it will provide additional income to MS, Yahoo, ISPs, and others.
So, being technical, I will continue to not use MS or my ISPs DNS servers, and will help others as best I can.
TFS doesn't make it very clear. It should have stated it a few more times.
When "The Media" hypes science stories they always proclaim this kind of shit. What they don't say, for instance, is how much longer is this eclipse than the second longest one.
It's a shame that no mention was made in TFA to coprolalia ("the spontaneous utterance of socially objectionable or taboo words or phrases": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprolalia), which is one of the symptoms of Tourette syndrome (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourette_syndrome).
It seems to me that there must be some deep psychological need for letting rip with a few choice words and phrases.
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Why try to hack it onto a server?
They will eventually bite you.
the chair throwing contest?
to back up all my computers, then reinstall a real OS after the "party". And if my Sparcs would run Suckblows.
But, I guess I have to pass.
Too bad I just ran out of mod points. I'd have an offtopic for you and your friend who'd rather sit around in your respective moms' basements instead of going to work.
Startup Weekend is an intense 54 hour event bringing brilliant minds (entrepreneurs, VCs, developers, designers, marketers, lawyers etc.) together to create a company (or as many as companies as the participants decide) from concept to launch! Interactivity and forging...marketspeak bullshit, blah blah ...Microsoft "experts" will be present to will provide support for developers building applications on Silverlight, Windows 7 and Azure. We will have other...blah blah.
Learn That Name, a new iPhone app designed to help people remember the names of people they bump into at events, won the most votes
I can't see that the TFS got it wrong, at least according to these quotes from the TFA.
I just check the Vonage web site. You can't call anywhere in the world for free. Maybe you mean other Vonage customers.
But, why would you pay $20 to $70 per month for a limited number of minutes rather than using a SIP phone (hard or soft) and doing the same for free; maybe using some SIP gateway service for call-in and call-out?
So we discuss "Coder of Swiss Wiretapping Trojan Speaks Out" on Aug 26; http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/08/26/144249, in which TFS says: "Last night, he published the source code of his Skype-Trojan under the GPL." (http://www.megapanzer.com/2009/08/25/skype-trojan-sourcecode-available-for-download/), and now the Einsteins at Symantec "claims to have found the public release of source code". Fucking brilliant.
The IBM 353 Disk Storage Unit used in the IBM 7030 in 1961 had a capacity of (2^21) 72-bit words (64 data bits and 8 ECC).
I happen to think that the early drives set a precendent which has value, and don't appreciate what the modern disc manufacturers are doing. It's worse than dumbing down; because it's lying.
Have non-computer people learned anything about computers since the Apple II? Maybe not. Why not? Because the people from the 1970's that founded personal computer companies with the paradigm that computers were alien and mysterious rocket science to the consumers of the 1970's are still in charge, instead of younger people who might allow computer users to grow up.
There is a page with good pictures of their earlier drive, the 350, here: http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_350.html
Pretty funny. /. should have a humor section. Is this ScumMaster something like the Keymaster?
I wanted to say something serious, like how HP, under Carly Fiorina flushed DEC's technology, like the superb Alpha CPU, down the toilet in favor of an alliance with Intel and the Itanic.
But glwtta was too funny, and I don't give a shit anymore. Fuckit.
"Russel Smith, principal idiot at the Australian Institute of Morons said the concept of a "computer drivers licence" should be taken seriously as an option for combating internet-related crime." (Well OK, maybe it's not an exact quote).
You know, a lot of inappropriate material goes down toilets into the sewage system, and which then subsequently has to be expunged from the system, at the expense of the taxpayers, or the environment.
Isn't a license to flush toilets needed to curb these abuses?
But something is unusual about the current sunspot cycle. The current solar minimum has been unusually long, and with more than 670 days without sunspots through June 2009, the number of spotless days has not been equaled since 1933
As to the "low number of sun spots and a temperature spike", more from TFA:
...posted on the Internet and led to some misunderstanding when a few authors from other fields cited that post and erroneously concluded that a lack of sunspots could explain global warming
This is something worth following closely:
Four years after the first draft paper, the predicted cycle-independent dearth in sunspot numbers has proven accurate. The vigor of sunspots, in terms of magnetic strength and area, has greatly diminished...Whether this is an omen of long-term sunspot decline, analogous to the Maunder Minimum, remains to be seen.
Note in this chart on Wikipedia that temps have been trending downward for thousands of years, as if we are plunging into the next glacial period.
Chart: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Holocene_Temperature_Variations.png
See here in general about the time since the most recent glacial period: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene
going to die the death that it so richly deserves?
Why does anybody reply except to say "you dumbass"?
You have to be careful comparing your search experiences from 10 years ago.
AFAIK, every single computer out there running Unix and Linux variants all have the crypt command, so that satisfies his first requirement of not having a suspicious program.
Then just put your data on a thumb drive.
I tried to find something, and the closest I could come up with was 2308, but I don't think that really addresses this problem.
But, I do agree that it's a problem. I do not want any program that I use to access the internet, to connect to a host:port that is not the one that I specified.
Having said that, I do understand that it is the MS way to try to hide technical complexity from their users, and that it will provide additional income to MS, Yahoo, ISPs, and others.
So, being technical, I will continue to not use MS or my ISPs DNS servers, and will help others as best I can.
What a stupid question.
Fucking dogs. I thought you were just chewing on the furniture and shitting on the bed.
The market will decide this.
Without stifling communication, the illegitimacy of the Fuckatollahs theocracy will become more apparent to their population.
TFS doesn't make it very clear. It should have stated it a few more times.
When "The Media" hypes science stories they always proclaim this kind of shit. What they don't say, for instance, is how much longer is this eclipse than the second longest one.
Maybe one millisecond, who knows.
It's a shame that no mention was made in TFA to coprolalia ("the spontaneous utterance of socially objectionable or taboo words or phrases": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprolalia), which is one of the symptoms of Tourette syndrome (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourette_syndrome).
It seems to me that there must be some deep psychological need for letting rip with a few choice words and phrases.